Open Source
How to Protect Your Network with an Open-Source Firewall
There are couple of free and open source firewall which are  so good to protect your home or office network from any kind of attacks which may be a virus attack or human initiated one.  Here we are going to discuss about an open source firewall called smoothwall which is very easy to install and [...]
How to Install Question2Answer – A free and open source platform for Q&A sites
The instructions below are for installing Question2Answer where it manages user accounts and logins for you. If you would like Question2Answer to integrate with your existing user database and account system (single sign-on), see the advanced installation. Download the latest version of Question2Answer to your computer or web server. Unzip the download using a tool [...]
How to test your ISP for shaping your traffic
Test if your ISP is shaping your traffic Is there any way to find out what your ISP is giving to you? Â Is he restricting your traffic? Â Now There is a free utility called Glasnost project which test your ISP . The goal of the Glasnost project is to make ISPs’ traffic shaping policies transparent [...]
How to Install and Configure AWStats
AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically.
How to upgrade Pligg Content Management System Version 1.1.2
Please be sure to make a backup of your MySQL databases and files before upgrading to the latest version of Pligg. Some upgrades might require that you upgrade your MySQL database, so please make backups whenever upgrading. These instructions do not support upgrading your template. Template upgrades require manual changes and should be carefully handled [...]
How to Install Pligg Content Management System Version 1.1.2
Requirements: Pligg requires a modern version of PHP and MySQL and some PHP functions. To test if your server is capable of running Pligg please view the Troubleshooter. If any elements appear in red on that page you may have a problem with either installing or running Pligg. Create a mysql database. If you are [...]
How to Install and Configure Zenoss under Linux – A Step By Step Guide
Zenoss is an Open Source Software to Monitor the Network, servers, applications etc. Its very easy to install and configure under Linux or windows system.  The Zenoss works on SNMP , The SNMP service should be enabled on all the monitoring devices . Here i am going to explain step by step guide to install Zenoss [...]
How to import contacts (addressbook) from email providers
I was searching for a script to import contacts from various email providers like gmail,yahoo, hotmail etc. I came through an interesting open source product called Open Inviter. Open source OpenInviterTM (Open InviterTM) is a free import contacts (addressbook) script from email providers like Nz11, YouTube, Libero, Rambler, Sapo.pt, Popstarmail, MSN, Abv, Clevergo, Mail.in, O2, Kids, [...]
A bootable CD-ROM Firewall – redWall Firewall CD
redWall is a bootable CD-ROM Firewall. It’s goal is to provide a feature rich firewall solution, with the main goal, to provide a webinterface for all the logfiles generated! Main features: Configuration is currenty stored on a floppy/USB Memory Stick/Harddrive or sent by email Due the fact, that most reporting functionality is done via mysql [...]
Java-based Open Source Web Application Firewall – WebCastellum
Java-based Open Source WAF (Web Application Firewall) to include inside a web application in order to protect it against attacks like SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Parameter Manipulation and many more. For More details visit http://www.WebCastellum.org
An authenticating, captive portal firewall platform for Linux – Sphirewall
Sphirewall is a authenticating, captive portal firewall platform for linux. With Sphirewall you are able to restrict access to certain resources like the internet and force your users to authenticate before getting access. Sphirewall enables easy user authentication and provides integration with external authentication protocals such as radius, kerberos and ldap. Current features include: User [...]
How to block IP that makes too many password failures
Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/error_log and bans IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address. Installation: ————- Required: >=python-2.3 (http://www.python.org) Optional: >=gamin-0.0.21 (http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin) To install, just do: > tar xvfj fail2ban-0.8.2.tar.bz2 > cd fail2ban-0.8.2 > python setup.py install This will install Fail2Ban into /usr/share/fail2ban. [...]